Failing to understand and to see life

Date 3 December 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
As a small child, I didn’t get the bigger picture of what was my life. I was lost in my thoughts, but I did come to understand my journey later, well into my thirties. Spectrum of 'life' When things happen, we may forget to think or ignore where ...
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A Slight Change Of Plans

Date 28 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
You may have read on my blog about my personal circumstances around my twin who is terminally ill. I am still trying to work on writing and getting blogs out there and shall continue, but my head's not quite in the zone ...
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Mental Health and Wellbeing

Date 26 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Over the years, I have seen first-hand what happens when you fail to see or act on your mental health. Ignore your mental health and be prepared to deal with illness, and it may not just be a cough or a cold. Mental Health ...
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The Importance of Changing Perspective

Date 25 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I changed my own perspective in my twenties when I realised the life I was emotionally living wasn't the life I wanted to live. It changed for good in my forties, when and for the first time I came away with a diagnosis of a disability ...
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Take Action for 'Mental Health'

Date 21 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Watching anyone fight a terminal illness is difficult, even more so when it’s your twin. Mental health comes in many guises and is something we should all be working on to better our mental health. I deal with mental health ...
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My Hypersensitivity Disorder

Date 16 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
This desire to change autistic people and ‘normalise’ them is because “it is easier to change the individual rather than society,” says Steve Silberman. “And when I'm looking at it, it's all coming in really, really quickly ...
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The virus is not gone

Date 13 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Just because we're not talking about the virus, doesn’t mean the virus is no longer here, or it’s no longer harmful. Ignoring the fact we’re still in the pandemic, doesn’t mean the virus is gone. The virus is not gone. Catching the virus ...
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Illness and my Mental Health Struggles

Date 11 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
My mental health always takes a knock around illness, particularly around a terminal illness. Autism doesn’t lend itself and my anxiety levels currently are high. My autism isn’t bad enough for me to be mentally unaware of what’s ...
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Time to re-think Mental Health

Date 7 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I don’t know where I’d be without my writing. With autism, I’m coping better, because I talk about how I feel. Mental health is a more prevalent problem in society, particularly in the wake of the pandemic and in the ...
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Early Intervention on Mental Health

Date 1 November 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
According to Brett Hill, at Towergate Health & Protection… ‘It is anticipated that half a million more people may experience mental ill-health because of Covid-19 and combined with those people who were already struggling ...
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Why You Should Read My Blog

Date 25 October 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
With each breath, we can all do better. By writing about best practices that encourages wellbeing, my blog encourages us all to do better. A blog that seeks out best practices It allows us to explore the meaning of life, the meaning of ...
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The Next Place

Date 22 October 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
This beautiful poem by Warren Hanson is for family whose loved ones are in the process of transitioning to spirit or for those who are wanting to seek an understanding of what 'passing over' means. Dedicated to my twin ...
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